Category: Microsoft

If 2014 isn’t known as the year of wearables, it could be known as the year of cloud storage. Between updates to Google Drive and Dropbox, and revamped offerings from Apple’s iCloud Drive, Amazon’s Cloud Drive and Microsoft’s OneDrive, access to cloud storage is now easier and cheaper than ever before. Even with the cost

News that Finnish company Supercell made $892m from its two mobile games in 2013 was a boost for the European apps industry, but the market is about more than consumer apps. A report published by the European commission suggests that two-thirds of the revenues earned by European app developers in 2013 came from work-for-hire projects for clients

The NSA is able to extract data including location, contacts, and credit card details from a massive database of global SMS messages, reports The Guardian. The US National Security Agency is collecting millions of “untargeted” text message from across the globe on a daily basis, according to a report from The Guardian. An NSA program,

In 2014, an estimated 2.5 billion devices will be sold worldwide, and increase of 6 percent over the previous year, according to Gartner. More than 75 percent of the devices will be mobile phones, with Android achieving more than double the share of Apple’s iOS or Windows Phone in 2014. (Credit: Gartner) So it’s clear,

Apple takes 30% off everything in the App Store. It’s how it goes. Be that for purchasing the app, grabbing in-app purchases, subscriptions, buying books for an ereader app, anything. Apple gets 30%. And, it turns out, Microsoft doesn’t like that — and the two companies are currently wrestling over an update to theMicrosoft SkyDrive

Recently we learned that Apple attempted to license its patents to Samsung, and it looks like that wasn’t the only deal Apple looked into with its rivals. According to Reuters, Apple licensed a number of design patents to its historical enemy Microsoft, but with an ”anti-cloning agreement” to prevent the company from churning out iPad